Museum of Flight hangs new unmanned vehicle exhibit

August 15, 2013 |By AUBREY COHEN

The Boeing Insitu ScanEagle, which first flew in 2002, can operate from remote, unfinished locations, performing primarily intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance missions.

The Museum of Flight’s ScanEagle deployed from the USS Bainbridge during the 2009 mission to rescue the captain of the MV Maersk Alabama after an attempted hijacking by pirates off the coast of Somalia. The museum briefly displayed the drone in its lobby last year.

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The Boeing Insitu ScanEagle, which first flew in 2002, can operate from remote, unfinished locations, performing primarily intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance missions.

The Museum of Flight’s ScanEagle deployed from the USS Bainbridge during the 2009 mission to rescue the captain of the MV Maersk Alabama after an attempted hijacking by pirates off the coast of Somalia. The museum briefly displayed the drone in its lobby last year.